Tag: security

• Get phished, see old friends (September 26, 2026)

  Jason Parham writes for Wired about how people whose identities are “borrowed” for targeted phishing scams often hear from old friends or acquaintances they haven’t heard from in years, checking in to make sure that the email is legitimate. Which it isn’t! But now these two people are unexpectedly reconnected anyway, and wow, it’s been so long, how are you, you wanna get lunch and catch up?

• Australia has no time for this (September 25, 2026)

  Australia discovered than an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a government-run health-statistics website earlier this year. Instead of responding with fear and awe directed at the agent itself, as we’ve seen so much of lately, the government has instead launched an investigation aimed at the agent’s corporate owner. I appreciate this.